A conversation about Slack, Bob, X-day and why you should donate $35 to the SubGenius church if you want to ride away in the flying saucers when the Earth is finally destroyed. Check out Reverend Dr. Danny Shoggoth's podcast:
A few months back this episode of Inside Zero Books was made available to our Patreon supporters. I'm releasing it now in an effort to encourage people to support us on Patreon and as a favor to a few listeners who said they couldn't afford to donate through Patreon but who wanted to hear the second half of this conversation.
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Thaddeus Russell is a historian, author, and professor. He has taught history, American Studies, and the history of philosophy at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the New School for Social Research. He is also the host of the Unregistered Podcast.
In this second half of Russell's conversation for Zero Books he discusses Marx's LTV, why the working classes don't feel exploited, and why he believes both gender and the biological notion of sex is a social construct.
This half of the conversation does not just fade out at the end, but rather ends with Russell asserting his conviction that Lain is well on his way to converting to postmodernism.
Here's the link to the first half of this conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygkfx9wMp-A&t=2s
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A reading from Maurizio Ferraris' book "Positive Realism."
"Ferraris showed great courage in the brutally anti-realist continental philosophy of the early 1990s. He argues rigorously, and is also an erudite and cultured person with an unusually good sense of humor." - Graham Harman
http://www.zero-books.net/books/positive-realism
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Zero Books editor and author Ashley Frawley interviews Philip Cunliffe from the Aufhebungabunga Bunga podcast. Cunliffe is also the author of "Lenin Lives" and a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Kent.
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This video overcomes objections from Böhm von Bawerk as summarized by GP Manish in his essay responding to Jason Barker's essay in the NYTs "Happy Birthday, Karl Marx! You were right!"
Relevant Books
Marx Returns by Jason Barker
https://www.amazon.com/Marx-Returns-Jason-Barker/dp/1785356607
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Marx-Returns-Jason-Barker/dp/1785356607
Labor and Capitalist Exploitation: Böhm-Bawerk and the Close of Marx’s System by GP Manish & Cassidy Counter
https://mises.org/wire/labor-and-capitalist-exploitation-bohm-bawerk-and-close-marxs-system
Happy Birthday Karl Marx by Jason Barker https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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The world's economy is headed for a massive crash and the left's understanding of economics is limiting its demands and imagination. We are living in a Disneyfied dream wherein we believe that capitalism's contradictions can be managed and that we can create a capitalism with a human face. This video takes a look at the present crisis with sober senses.
The Post-Pandemic Slump by Michael Roberts
https://braveneweurope.com/michael-roberts-the-post-pandemic-slump
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Zero Books Manifesto:
The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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Many leftists today know the name of the Italian anarchist Errico Malatesta, but few know much about him. In this conversation, one of the foremost scholars on his life and ideas, Davide Turcato, discusses Malatesta’s activities during his long London exile from 1900-1913, his revolutionary theory of the armed strike, and his complicated relation to the Marxism of the second international.
Buy the latest volume of Malatesta’s complete works here: https://akpress.org/complete-works-of-malatesta-vol-v.html
The Method of Freedom, An Errico Malatesta Reader: https://akpress.org/the-method-of-freedom.html
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Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:
Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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In this video blog, the question of why the left has seemed to lose touch with the working class is taken up as Douglas Lain responds to Nagle and Tracey's essay "First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Collapse of the Sanders Campaign and the “Fusionist” Left." Lain argues that, rather than being a symptom of a commitment to a neoliberal "woke" culture, the disconnect between the contemporary social-democratic left and the working class is best understood as a product of the development of capitalism and the struggle for socialism and its defeats. The question of revisionism is tackled as Lain discusses Max Horkheimer's essay, "The Sociology of Class Relations," Sam Moss's "On the Impotence of the Revolutionary Group," and the significance of the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot 'Gritty.'
The entire essay is available on our blog:
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/blogs/zer0/why-are-leftists-freaks-(a-response-to-michael-tracey-and-angela-nagle)/
Relevant Essays
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Collapse of the Sanders Campaign and the “Fusionist” Left" - by Nagle and Tracey
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2020/05/first-as-tragedy-then-as-farce/
The Sociology of Class Relations by Max Horkheimer
https://nonsite.org/the-tank/max-horkheimer-and-the-sociology-of-class-relations
The impotence of the revolutionary group - by Sam Moss
https://libcom.org/library/impotence-of-revolutionary-group-international-council-correspondence-moss
The essay written for this video will be published on Medium and added to this description later today.
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zer0 Books wants to work against this trend.
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This video will deliver another critique of what is calling itself the post-left, or if that’s too broad a category, then it is a critique of Michael Lind and his idea that a Managerial Elite is dominating society.
But, before we get to that the video spends a lot of time explaining how the history of secularization led to Marx’s critique of political economy, and why the notion of social class or caste must be considered separately from the idea of class as it relates to capitalist production.
Relevant Book
Canceling Comedians While The World Burns by Ben Burgis
https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/canceling-comedians-while-world-burns
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The modern world is at an impasse. Disasters scroll across our smartphone screens and we’re invited to like, follow or upvote, but critical thinking is harder and harder to find. Rather than connecting us in common struggle and debate, the internet has sped up and deepened a long-standing process of alienation and atomization.
Zero Books aims to work against this trend.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra1a2L3P4e4
Why we need a materialist spirituality for the secular left, and how to build one.
The left commonly rejects religion and spirituality as counter-revolutionary forces, citing Marx’s famous dictum that “religion is the opium of the people.” Yet forms of spirituality have motivated struggles throughout history, ranging from medieval peasant uprisings and colonial slave revolts, to South American liberation theology and the US civil rights movement. And in a world where religion is growing, and political movements are ridden with conflict, burnout, and failure, what can the left learn from religion?
Red Enlightenment argues not only for a deepened understanding of religious matters, but calls for the secular left to develop its own spiritual perspectives. It proposes a materialist spirituality built from socialist and scientific sources, finding points of contact with the global history of philosophy and religion.
From cybernetics to liberation theology, from ancient Indian and Chinese philosophy to Marxist dialectical materialism, from traditional religious practices to contemporary art, music, and film, Red Enlightenment sets out a plausible secular spirituality, a new socialist praxis, and a utopian vision.
Buy the book here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/red-enlightenment/
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Other links:
Check out the projects of some of the new contributors to Zer0 Books:
Acid Horizon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcast
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/acidhorizon
Merch: crit-drip.com
The Philosopher’s Tarot from Repeater Books: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/
The Horror Vanguard
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/horror-vanguard/id1445594437
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/horrorvanguard
Buddies Without Organs
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/buddies-without-organs/id1543289939
Website: https://buddieswithout.org/
Xenogothic: https://xenogothic.com/
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